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Hi!
Neophyte trying to hold on to C5 as my CMS choice but cannot seem to get started. Installed through Web Hosting Hub (using Softaculous), C5 has the flexibility I need, but when I try to edit even the home page I do not have the options shown in your video (i.e., edit) and cannot seem to change ANYTHING on the page. I am used to wysiwyg technology (published many websites using Frontpage), and is one of the reasons C5 is so outstanding and attractive.
I have to admit I'm a little overwhelmed by the instructions on your site and the instructions on the host's site (it is getting to be an Excedrin moment).
If I've made a mistake with C5 (like this is way over my head) just tell me so and I will look for something simpler (WordPress, perhaps?).
Thank you so much,
Beachgirl (aka PJ Braley)
Neophyte trying to hold on to C5 as my CMS choice but cannot seem to get started. Installed through Web Hosting Hub (using Softaculous), C5 has the flexibility I need, but when I try to edit even the home page I do not have the options shown in your video (i.e., edit) and cannot seem to change ANYTHING on the page. I am used to wysiwyg technology (published many websites using Frontpage), and is one of the reasons C5 is so outstanding and attractive.
I have to admit I'm a little overwhelmed by the instructions on your site and the instructions on the host's site (it is getting to be an Excedrin moment).
If I've made a mistake with C5 (like this is way over my head) just tell me so and I will look for something simpler (WordPress, perhaps?).
Thank you so much,
Beachgirl (aka PJ Braley)
Checking a very basic here. Are you logged in to the site? There will be a grey bar across the top.
It says I am logged in as PJ Braley.
Sorry, I have lots of questions...
What do you see when you navigate to your site? Are you sure you're landing on the concrete5 website? Where did you tell the script to put the site? If it's in a folder off the root, then you have to go to:
The reason I ask is the usernames cannot have spaces in them so where is it saying that you are logged in as 'PJ Braley'
What is at the top of your page when you are logged in? Does it look like the attached screenshot?
Is there a live URL we could look at?
Concrete5 is a great platform but it is conceptually different than FrontPage because you don't have to do very much HTML coding. You can still use your coding skills but it's more to tweak the last 10% of a built-in 'block' that you add to the page. In other words, concrete5 does 90% of the work. The concepts are new but once you 'get it' there's no turning back. I was a FrontPage guy for a long time and now when I have to tweak/repair/build old sites that I built in FrontPage, it seems like I could build them a whole new site in concrete5 in the time it takes me to fix one of these old pages. Stick with it, watch a bunch of videos and ask a lot of questions here and you'll 'get it' too.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/getting-started/...
What do you see when you navigate to your site? Are you sure you're landing on the concrete5 website? Where did you tell the script to put the site? If it's in a folder off the root, then you have to go to:
www.your-domain.com/folder-name
The reason I ask is the usernames cannot have spaces in them so where is it saying that you are logged in as 'PJ Braley'
What is at the top of your page when you are logged in? Does it look like the attached screenshot?
Is there a live URL we could look at?
Concrete5 is a great platform but it is conceptually different than FrontPage because you don't have to do very much HTML coding. You can still use your coding skills but it's more to tweak the last 10% of a built-in 'block' that you add to the page. In other words, concrete5 does 90% of the work. The concepts are new but once you 'get it' there's no turning back. I was a FrontPage guy for a long time and now when I have to tweak/repair/build old sites that I built in FrontPage, it seems like I could build them a whole new site in concrete5 in the time it takes me to fix one of these old pages. Stick with it, watch a bunch of videos and ask a lot of questions here and you'll 'get it' too.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/getting-started/...
Thank you for your reply. It appears I may not have installed the C5 software correctly. I am looking at the printout of the setup page and realize no directory was typed in because the instructions say to leave it empty to install it tohttp://mydomain/ Should I have typed in dir?
The database name is conc881 (is that right) and apparently I misunderstood the instructions entirely because I left the site named: Concrete. As well as specifying the admin email as admin@pjbraley.com without actually having an email address in that name.
I can uninstall and reinstall - BUT what should the settings be?
Usually I am better than this, but this entire process has been a little overwhelming.
Thank you,
PJ
The database name is conc881 (is that right) and apparently I misunderstood the instructions entirely because I left the site named: Concrete. As well as specifying the admin email as admin@pjbraley.com without actually having an email address in that name.
I can uninstall and reinstall - BUT what should the settings be?
Usually I am better than this, but this entire process has been a little overwhelming.
Thank you,
PJ
And no, when I edit the url does not change...just says pjbraley.com, if I go into dashboard, sometimes there is a blue line across the top.
I just visitedhttp://www.pjbradley.com and you have what looks like a working but empty concrete5 installation. I wouldn't be seeing that empty plain yogurt home page if there was anything fundamentally wrong with your concrete5 installation.
So your difficulties are probably more to do with getting logged in as site administrator and basic familiarity.
What browser are you using and do you have a screenshot tool installed on the browser? Have a look at the last section of this howto for more info about screenshots.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/getting-help...
So your difficulties are probably more to do with getting logged in as site administrator and basic familiarity.
What browser are you using and do you have a screenshot tool installed on the browser? Have a look at the last section of this howto for more info about screenshots.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/getting-help...
I logged into her site last evening (with her permission) and she is going to re-install with 'sample content'. The script she used to install concrete5 did not have this checked and so it installed an empty site.
Sounds good. Reinstalling with sample content was going to be my next suggestion also.
